I can’t say I agree with your final assessment, but returning to the base of the question, I don’t really consider “Dengism” to be a thing just like I don’t consider “Stalinism” to be a thing. I suppose I will concede that they can be used when specifically talking about Deng’s policies in his era, and questions like Socialism in One Country for Stalin, but that “Dengists” do not exist as people who put Deng as a major, universalized advancement on Marxism-Leninism.
“Dengists” do not exist as people who put Deng as a major, universalized advancement on Marxism-Leninism.
Of course they do not, and that’s exactly my point. I thought I was repeating myself too much, but then you talk past me like this and I question what I could possibly to do make my thesis more understandable. I don’t say Dengist because I think the people to whom I would apply that label would also self-identify that way, and I don’t define Dengism in terms that those people would like, because they and I disagree about Marxism and especially about the historical reality of the ideological trends that led to our respective positions.
I hear and understand what you’re saying, comrade, my point was to reject OP’s casting of everyone as “Dengites” or “Dengists” like a Trot slings “Stalinist.” I think in what you percieve as overcorrection on my part, I view as overcorrection on your part. I think we aren’t being charitable enough to each other.
I can’t say I agree with your final assessment, but returning to the base of the question, I don’t really consider “Dengism” to be a thing just like I don’t consider “Stalinism” to be a thing. I suppose I will concede that they can be used when specifically talking about Deng’s policies in his era, and questions like Socialism in One Country for Stalin, but that “Dengists” do not exist as people who put Deng as a major, universalized advancement on Marxism-Leninism.
Of course they do not, and that’s exactly my point. I thought I was repeating myself too much, but then you talk past me like this and I question what I could possibly to do make my thesis more understandable. I don’t say Dengist because I think the people to whom I would apply that label would also self-identify that way, and I don’t define Dengism in terms that those people would like, because they and I disagree about Marxism and especially about the historical reality of the ideological trends that led to our respective positions.
I hear and understand what you’re saying, comrade, my point was to reject OP’s casting of everyone as “Dengites” or “Dengists” like a Trot slings “Stalinist.” I think in what you percieve as overcorrection on my part, I view as overcorrection on your part. I think we aren’t being charitable enough to each other.